Isaiah 29:1
Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add ye year to year, let the feasts come round!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 5:9And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed seasons My soul hateth; they are a burden unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
Isaiah 31:9And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 7:21Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.
Ezekiel 43:16And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.
Hosea 8:13As for the sacrifices that are made by fire unto Me, let them sacrifice flesh and eat it, for the LORD accepteth them not. Now will He remember their iniquity, and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:1
This woe to Ariel, which we have in this chapter, is the same with the "burden of the valley of vision" ( ch. xxii. 1 ), and (it is very probable) points at the same event—the besieging of Jerusalem by the Assyrian army, which was cut off there by an angel; yet it is applicable to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and its last desolations by the Romans. Here is, I. The event itself foretold, that Jerusalem should be greatly distressed, ver. 1-4 , 6 ), but that their enemies, who distressed them,… Read the whole commentary →